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From: djhawley@wateng.UUCP (David J. Hawley)
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Subject: Re: Arndt on Hitler
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Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 14:10:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  8 14:10:59 1985
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>> to the audience.  Just like today's pols.  If Gobbels had had T.V.!!!
>
>...he'd be Jerry Falwell!!

Is this libel? If not legally, it seems that way ethically. If Nazis had had
had T.V. they might smear his enemies, encourage hatred, and misunderstanding.
Is that what you are trying to do, Mr. Cohen? I trust not.

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>> They were trying to build a new world.  Many of them were 'good' men as well
>> as good Germans.  So easy to be pulled along and join up.  The horror came
>> soon enough.  But the first SS men British troops met behaved honorably.
>
>Sounds a good deal like the goals of the Moral Majority, no?

Good motives does not imply Nazi methods (unless you are a true believer in
passivity). This is not reasoning. It's prejudice. Also, the Moral Majority is
trying to STOP the creeping creation of a new world, a creation already in
progress. It seems they feel that this new world will/is much closer to
Nazi (with its roots in Nietsche) inhumanity.

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This kind of kneejerk unthinking illogic can be safely labelled "redneck".
And they call Bible-Belters redneck. Hmm.. Maybe its not confined to any
one group, ... or any one set of ideas. Maybe we have to judge ideas on their
own merits. Rather than the easy *ad hominem*.

David Hawley
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David John Hawley	University of Waterloo
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The opinions expressed herein are not those of my employers,
or of the University of Waterloo,
and although I've probably borrowed them from someone else
I've thought about them a bit.